Wake

Sprawling in the heart of 's Piedmont, the Research Triangle is a metro area of about two million people. The ever-expanding Triangle is unique as a metro area, since it is centered around three cities instead of just one.
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  • County with 901,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 338 feet (103 metres)
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as
    “Wake County”
    “Wake County, NC”
    “Wake County, North Carolina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include North Carolina State Capitol and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Raleigh and Garner.
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is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States.
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Wake

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Latitude
35.7979° or 35° 47′ 53″ north
Longitude
-78.6118° or 78° 36′ 43″ west
Open location code
8773Q9XQ+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316979036
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4497286
Wiki­data ID
Q506215

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wake” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wake County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Wake County”
  • Albanian: “Wake County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ويك”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه ويك، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Armenian: “Ուեյք”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Wake”
  • Basque: “Wake konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Wake County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Wake County”
  • Belarusian: “акруга Уэйк”
  • Belarusian: “Уэйк (акруга, Паўночная Караліна)”
  • Belarusian: “Уэйк”
  • Belarusian: “Ўэйк”
  • Bishnupriya: “ৱেইক কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “ৱেইক কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Уейк”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Wake”
  • Cebuano: “Wake County”
  • Chechen: “Уэйк (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Уэйк”
  • Chinese: “韋克”
  • Chinese: “韋克縣”
  • Chinese: “韦克县”
  • Czech: “Wake County”
  • Dutch: “Wake County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Wake”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Wake”
  • Esperanto: “Wake County”
  • Estonian: “Wake’i maakond”
  • Estonian: “Wakei maakond”
  • Finnish: “Waken piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Wake”
  • French: “Comté de Wake”
  • French: “Wake County”
  • French: “Wake”
  • German: “Wake County”
  • Gilaki: “ویک ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “ویک ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Γουέικ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז וייק (קרוליינה הצפונית)”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז וייק, קרוליינה הצפונית, ארצות הברית”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז וייק, קרוליינה הצפונית”
  • Hungarian: “Wake megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Wake, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Wake”
  • Italian: “contea di Wake”
  • Italian: “Contea di Wake”
  • Italian: “Wake County”
  • Japanese: “ウェイク郡”
  • Korean: “웨이크군”
  • Low German: “Wake County”
  • Mazanderani: “ویک شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Wake Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wake Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wake County”
  • Norwegian: “Wake County”
  • Nyanja: “Wake County”
  • Pedi: “Wake County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ویک”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Wake”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Wake”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Wake”
  • Portuguese: “Wake County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Wake, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Wake”
  • Russian: “Уэйк”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Wake”
  • Scots: “Wake Coonty, North Carolina”
  • Scots: “Wake Coonty”
  • Serbian: “Округ Вејк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wake County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wake County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Wake”
  • Slovenian: “Wake County”
  • Southern Sotho: “Wake County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Wake”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Wake”
  • Spanish: “Wake County”
  • Spanish: “Wake”
  • Swahili: “Wake County”
  • Swati: “Wake County”
  • Swedish: “Wake County”
  • Tatar: “Вейк”
  • Tatar: “Уэйк”
  • Tumbuka: “Wake County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Wake County”
  • Turkish: “Wake County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Wake County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Wake County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Wake County”
  • Turkish: “Wake ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Wake ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Wake ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Wake ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Вейк”
  • Urdu: “ویک کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Wake”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Wake, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Wake, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Wake”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Wake, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Wake”
  • Welsh: “Wake County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Wake County”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویک کاؤنٹی”
  • Xhosa: “Wake County”
  • Zulu: “Wake County”

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